anthropology of religion and secularism, political and legal anthropology, violence, liberalism sovereignty, U.S. constitutional and environmental law, Islamic law, psychoanalysis, courtroom ethnography, social theory; Islam and Muslim communities in the United States.

cultural production in India (caste, gender and oral traditions), poetics and politics of speech and song; colonialism, culture, and colonial knowledge, colonial ethnography in nineteeth century India; the politics of representation, ethnographic history, music and industrial capitalism in Appalachia, blues music in the mountain south; landscape, history, memory